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In this paper, a backstepping observer and an output feedback control law are designed for the stabilization of the one-phase Stefan problem. The present result is an improvement of the recent full state feedback backstepping controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Shumon Koga , Mamadou Diagne , Miroslav Krstic

In this paper, a backstepping control of the one-phase Stefan Problem, which is a 1-D diffusion Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a time varying spatial domain described by an ordinary differential equation (ODE), is studied. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Shumon Koga , Mamadou Diagne , Shuxia Tang , Miroslav Krstic

This paper presents the control design of the two-phase Stefan problem. The two-phase Stefan problem is a representative model of liquid-solid phase transition by describing the time evolutions of the temperature profile which is divided by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

This paper presents a control design for the one-phase Stefan problem under actuator delay via a backstepping method. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a material's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Shumon Koga , Delphine Bresch-Pietri , Miroslav Krstic

This paper develops an input-to-state stability (ISS) analysis of the Stefan problem with respect to an unknown heat loss. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Shumon Koga , Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

The Stefan PDE system is a representative model for thermal phase change phenomena, such as melting and solidification, arising in numerous science and engineering processes. The mathematical description is given by a Partial Differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

The vertical gradient freeze crystal growth process is the main technique for the production of high quality compound semiconductors that are vital for today's electronic applications. A simplified model of this process consists of two 1D…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Stefan Ecklebe , Nicole Gehring

This paper presents results for the sampled-data boundary feedback control to the Stefan problem. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase change phenomenon which describes the time evolution of a material's temperature profile…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Shumon Koga , Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

This paper presents a safe stabilization of the Stefan PDE model with a moving boundary governed by a high-order dynamics. We consider a parabolic PDE with a time-varying domain governed by a second-order response with respect to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

In this chapter we consider different approximations for the one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem corresponding to the fusion process of a semi-infinite material with a temperature boundary condition at the fixed face and non-linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-21 Julieta Bollati , María F. Natale , José A. Semitiel , Domingo A. Tarzia

This paper deals with the exact controllability to the trajectories of the one--phase Stefan problem in one spatial dimension. This is a free-boundary problem that models solidification and melting processes. It is assumed that the physical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Jon Asier Bárcena-Petisco , Enrique Fernández-Cara , Diego A. Souza

This paper considers a safe trajectory tracking of the Stefan problem with a second-order moving boundary dynamics. The model is given by a parabolic Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a time-varying domain of moving boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

The present article is dedicated to the forward and backward solution of a transient one-phase Stefan problem. In the forward problem, we compute the evolution of the initial domain for a Stefan problem where the melting temperature varies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Marc Dambrine , Helmut Harbrecht

This contribution presents a backstepping-based state feedback design for the tracking control of a two-phase Stefan problem which is encountered in the Vertical Gradient Freeze crystal growth process. A two-phase Stefan problem consists of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Stefan Ecklebe , Frank Woittennek , Jan Winkler

Many metal manufacturing processes involve phase change phenomena, which include melting, boiling, and vaporization. These phenomena often occur concurrently. A prototypical 1D model for understanding the phase change phenomena is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Yavkreet Swami , Jacob Barajas , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

In this contribution tracking control designs using output feedback are presented for a two-phase Stefan problem arising in the modeling of the Vertical Gradient Freeze process. The two-phase Stefan problem, consisting of two coupled free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Stefan Ecklebe , Frank Woittennek , Jan Winkler , Christiane Frank-Rotsch , Natasha Dropka

The one-dimensional (1D) Stefan problem is a prototypical heat and mass transfer problem that analyzes the temperature distribution in a material undergoing phase change. In addition, it describes the evolution of the phase change front…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Mehran Soleimani , Kimmo Koponen , Nils Tilton , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

This paper provides an observer-based event-triggered boundary control strategy for the one-phase Stefan problem using the position and velocity measurements of the moving interface. The infinite-dimensional backstepping approach is used to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Bhathiya Rathnayake , Mamadou Diagne

This paper concerns the null controllability of the two-phase 1D Stefan problem with distributed controls. This is a free-boundary problem that models solidification or melting processes. In each phase, a parabolic equation, completed with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Raul K. C. Araújo , Enrique Fernández-Cara , Juan Límaco , Diego A. Souza

We consider the inverse multiphase Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundaries. Optimal control framework is pursued, where boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Ugur G. Abdulla , Bruno Poggi
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